“Myths die hard.”
So says the latest issue of the Economist magazine, in an article that addresses the nuanced myth of bra-burning.
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At the ‘Freedom Trash Can,' 1968
Only there's not much nuance in the Economist's description.
“When a handful of feminists protested at the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City,” the Economist says, “they burned no brassières. They did, however, dump a few (and make-up and high-heeled shoes) into a ‘freedom trash can,' while also crowning a sheep.”
The syntax of that paragraph is certainly awkward. But what most interests Media Myth Alert is the assertion “they burned no brassières.”
And that's not quite right.
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